From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:25:37 +0000 We know that some - not all that many - institutions have funding for author publication charges. So lately we have been offering, to institutions who sign up for our 'Package' of 27 peer-reviewed titles, the opportunity to have written into the licence the right for members from that institution to have XX papers published in our journals in a year, subject to normal acceptance procedures, on an Open Access basis with no additional APCs. While up to a point I have to go with market flow and accept the APC model, I must say I don't like it, its capacity for distorting scholarly communication is self-evident (in fact I'm puzzled as to why its become so popular again). This option seems to take money off the table, at the author-editor-publisher nexus, which I can only think is good news. Bill Hughes Multi-Science Publishing www.multi-science.co.uk